Notes
2002
- Hats Off· The Zebra Face cartoons, from Invisible Spies.
- Walking On Commerciality· Coasteering on the Pembrokeshire coast sounds like it might be fun.
- Angry Dolphin· Warp/Creative Review animation microsite.
- Sharp Shooting on Saturn· Black Dog’s seminal 1993 album, Temple of Transparent Balls, gets a welcome re-release on 1 July. Parallel, the compilation featuring odd bits of GPR…
- Slice Of Cheese· WaiWai is “a section of the Mainichi Daily News that brings articles from Japan’s weekly tabloids to foreign readers”. Cheeky, punning nonsense.…
- Sitting Up Straight· The Times on John Lanchester’s new novel, Fragrant Harbour.
- Speakeasy· Random Word Generator. Favourites so far include wagenegle, framelechable, scrudicturns, bylarlous, lubbses, sistral, bitwences, tection, lovememons and…
- D-Zug· Gottfried Benn’s Morgue & Other Verse (1912-13), available in PDF and iSilo formats from Supervert.
- Kind Of Disco Sound· The new Ladytron album, Light and Magic, is currently set for a US release on September 17th. No word on the UK release date yet.
- Middle Of Nowhere· Keele University’s h2g2 entry.
- Things To Do· Go to Sonomu Presents… Lo And Behold! on Friday 21st June, featuring Cursor Miner, Andy Drumboy (Stereolab), They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them), Lord…
- Gamers in Exile· Gamer.tv are looking for game-literate people to appear as contestants on their new television gaming quiz show.
- Cut Faster· Coldcut have updated the website for their excellent Solid Steel radio show. It now includes all the playlists since 1998 and archives of some shows.
- Djed· Rephlex’s lektrogirl are holding dj workshops “for people who have never touched decks in their lives before and want to know how to make some noise”. The…
- Urge· nerve.com on Henry Miller’s Opus Pistorum.
- More Hot Lovage· Terrible chat-up lines, dating dos and don’ts and hints & tips from Nathanial Merriweather’s Lovage, a Prince Paul/Automator project.
- Machine Room Jam· Fabulous Sound Machines at the Croydon Clocktower.
- Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement· A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks. Related: Culture Ship Names and Culture Inspired Ship Names.
- Holiday Retort· Back. Highlights: Tate St Ives (including the altogether more impressive Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden and David Shrigley postcards);…
- The Holiday Girl· Anglepoised, More Beer and Uncharted Audio are off to the delightful village of Mousehole in Cornwall, to escape from celebrate the Jubilee and World Cup.…
- Be Clowns· Odd, bootleg-style MP3s from Leila.
- jCandy· The history of Pocky (that’s Pocky, not pocky).
- Small Circular Motion· Currently listening to a couple of albums from John Zorn’s Tzadik label; Memories Are My Only Witness by Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto fame) and Dreams by…
- Ho Fun· The Independent on noodles.
- Blistered Ego· Headlessness interview on Chuck D’s SlamJamz venture.